(Obligatory clean hit statement) I hope Landeskog gets better ASAP. I really appreciate how maturely he handled a clean play even though it resulted in an injury. If this same hit happened the day after I can't even imagine what Vancouver would have done...

1.) Peter Mueller comes in a surprise trade and ratchets up 20 points through 15 games before Blake destroys him in a questionable hit.

2.) Steve Downie just got hurt for the season.

3.) Stuart hits Landeskog, who is not out indefinitely with 'head and neck' injuries.

This fan base keeps seeing all their hopes lost to injuries.

Lastly it seems almost half the hockey nation thinks ANY hit to the head is suspension worthy or the 'principal point of contact' etc. Shanahan needs to spend some more time educating the general public on how a hit to the head can be legal under certain circumstances, such as this one. It's time for more of his videos, I guess.

1.) Peter Mueller comes in a surprise trade and ratchets up 20 points through 15 games before Blake destroys him in a questionable hit.

2.) Steve Downie just got hurt for the season.

3.) Stuart hits Landeskog, who is not out indefinitely with 'head and neck' injuries.

This fan base keeps seeing all their hopes lost to injuries.

Lastly it seems almost half the hockey nation thinks ANY hit to the head is suspension worthy or the 'principal point of contact' etc. Shanahan needs to spend some more time educating the general public on how a hit to the head can be legal under certain circumstances, such as this one. It's time for more of his videos, I guess.

Bad luck for SJSharks opponents when it comes to career-ruining injuries off of clean hits.

Good luck for SJSharks opponents when it comes to bounces in the playoffs.

Why can't they switch roles?

Stuart's hit was textbook big clean hockey hit in my eyes.

Blake on the other hand caught Muller slightly behind his shoulder. You can argue Mueller turned his back into the hit but Blake still pushed his forearm into Muller's back which injected a lot of force into Muller's already awkward position. I think if that same play happened today Blake would be suspended.

Farther back:
Thornton's hit on Perron wasn't that bad to in my opinion as Thornton just stepped out of the box and it would have been a good hit to the chest if Thornton wasn't 6'4" bracing for a hit vs Perron's 6'0" handling the puck. Caught Perron partially under the chin and Shanahan wanted to show the rest of the league he was serious.

If you want to go even farther back we had Bryan Marchment who delivered a series of knee injuries to other players.

Blake on the other hand caught Muller slightly behind his shoulder. You can argue Mueller turned his back into the hit but Blake still pushed his forearm into Muller's back which injected a lot of force into Muller's already awkward position. I think if that same play happened today Blake would be suspended.

Farther back:
Thornton's hit on Perron wasn't that bad to in my opinion as Thornton just stepped out of the box and it would have been a good hit to the chest if Thornton wasn't 6'4" bracing for a hit vs Perron's 6'0" handling the puck. Caught Perron partially under the chin and Shanahan wanted to show the rest of the league he was serious.

If you want to go even farther back we had Bryan Marchment who delivered a series of knee injuries to other players.

Shark's arn't always clean.

I miss Mush on the back line - that cat would be constantly suspended in this era of the game.

Sucks for Landeskog, I'm a fan of him. I hope he gets healthy quickly. Surprised he was allowed to keep playing, maybe the NHL needs to implement rules like the NFL where players basically have to come out if there's a chance they were concussed.